How To Use My Green doctor

The key is your Green Team: Businesses around the world, including in health care, use the Green Team model. This is the My Green Doctor approach. Our website shows you step-by-step how to have your own successful office Green Team. Below is a quick guide to using My Green Doctor:

My Green Doctor is for everyone in the office: Managers, nurses, aides, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, therapists, clerical staff, lab techs, administrators, cleaning staff, computer experts, and even the doctors. No scientific or environmental knowledge is needed. Anyone can register and use the website-it is free, confidential and safe to use.

Make “going green” your official policy. You will be more successful if your office and company adopt environmental sustainability as one of your core values. Many businesses, large and small, have taken this step. It is the right thing to do for yourselves, your patients and your community. Check out our “Why Go Green” tab to learn why. We provide PowerPoint shows and a sample environmental sustainability policy to adopt as your own: see the “Resources” tab.

Keys to success for your Green Team. We provide tips for a fun and successful Green Team experience: see “Green Team Success Tips”.

When to meet? Some offices choose a quick five-minute Green Team meeting once every week as part of a regular staff meeting. Consider calling it, “Green Team Tuesday”! Other offices schedule a dedicated Green Team lunch once a month, with each person bringing their own lunch to the meeting. Find a time to meet that suits your office’s busy schedules.

Stay on track with our Meeting-by-Meeting Guide: The guide tells you what to say and do at each Green Team meeting. The Guide directs you to the easiest Action Steps for your office to adopt. Of course, you are free to choose from any of the more than 140 Steps in our free Workbooks.

We provide a simple Green Team Notes form for tracking each Green Team meeting: see the “Resources” tab.

My Green Doctor has seven Workbooks that are chock-full of ideas. There are more than 140 Action Steps and Education Steps to choose from. PLUS useful information to share with your office staff, your families and your patients. AND more than a dozen free brochures and posters for your waiting room.

Go to “Quick Start, Now!” Learn how to start YOUR Green Team in just 15 minutes!

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Tip of the Week

Turn Machines Off:

Adopt a policy to turn off lights, computers, monitors, fax machines, copiers & printers at night. This saves a lot of energy and money. Set computer monitors to "sleep mode" if they must stay on. Plug all machines into power strips to make it easy to turn them off at night. Put reminder messages on machines to "Please turn me off!" Speak with your janitorial staff who may leave lights on at night.